Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel – What Happens When You Ignore the Voice of the Holy Spirit?

0:00 Don't ever end up a religious figure. Religious people destroy the church. Just like those religious people destroyed the temple. Live Christ. Don't just talk and speak eloquently with big words. And yet live none of them. Rather be quiet and live the Lord. Don't talk too much. And live very little. Live the Lord. And shut up. Be quiet. You cannot buy people's life with money, but you're able to change it, save it with the love of Christ when you allowed him to enter your heart. This money can't buy. Do you think for a moment that Christ who lives in you, that Christ who walks through you, who speaks through you and changes people through you, do you think he'll leave you sleep one night hungry? Are we out of our mind?

1:01 What is your financial problem? Compared to what Christ has done for you. Please have faith. We were born from our parents Adam and Eve in sin. Sin made us all bankrupt. And sin made us all paralyzed and unable to work spiritually. Now we are poor. The Lord says... Blessed are you if you say, I am bankrupt, Lord, and I am good for nothing. I came for people like you. Jesus came back from the wilderness victorious. He was tempted. He fasted for 40 days and 40 nights.

1:44 And then he was tempted by the devil. And after all that, the Lord Jesus put the devil to shame and came back victorious. Why? Because when he went to the wilderness, he was led by the Spirit. That's why he came back victorious. If the Holy Spirit leads your life, rest assured, you too will come back victorious. Like the Lord Jesus himself who has done it in the flesh. Now, after the Lord Jesus came back from the wilderness victorious over temptations over the devil, where did he go? Well, he came down to Galilee and then to Nazareth where he lived most of his life on earth. He came down to Galilee and down to Nazareth. But came down in what? He came down in the power of the Holy Spirit. He came down in the power of the

2:42 Holy Spirit. Verse 14, if we can have it on the screen. Then Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee. So he came back. He was victorious in the wilderness, came back down to Galilee and then to Nazareth, but this time he came back in the power of the Spirit. Now, there is a difference between leading of the Spirit and the power of the Spirit.

3:11 What is the power of the Spirit? In Luke 24, 49, which is not on the screen, in Luke 24, 49, he says, Behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you. But tarry, meaning remain, in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from above. The power of the Spirit is for evangelism, to evangelize, to preach.

3:38 So how is a person, a Christian person, able to preach the word of the Lord by the power of the Holy Spirit? Now, the Lord Jesus entered the synagogue of Nazareth. The moment he entered the synagogue, he was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. And it happened to be Isaiah 61 and verses 1 to 2, but the first half of verse 2 only, not the entire verse 2. So the Lord Jesus read from Isaiah 61 verse 1 and the first half of verse 2. And it is so beautiful that Saint Luke paints all of this and says in Luke 4, 16, And if we can have Luke 4.16, it's not on the screen either.

4:26 In Luke 4.16 he says, So he came to Nazareth where he had been brought up. Where Jesus was brought up in Nazareth. He came down to Nazareth where he has been brought up. And as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up to read. And as his custom was, What do we learn from this as his custom was? It tells me and all of us that from the time the Lord Jesus was born till the time he came back from the wilderness victorious, every single Sabbath, the Lord spent it in the synagogue. So in other words, he went to the synagogue every Saturday without fail. Do we go to church every Sunday without fail? Well, we need to walk in the footsteps of the Lord Jesus. You need

5:18 to be consistent with your faith. You need to be consistent with your church. Don't go once, disappear ten times. If you want to find result, fruitful result in your Christian life, in your spiritual life, consistency pays off. Consistency pays off. As his custom was, every Saturday would that fail from the time he was born till the time he came back from The wilderness victorious. Jesus never missed a synagogue on a Sabbath. Never missed it. Now, the Lord Jesus used to go to the synagogue every Sabbath.

6:03 But one would ask, why this time in particular, he was given a book to read, yet throughout his life, every Saturday he's been to the synagogue, he was never asked to read the book until this time only. So for the first time only, after coming back from the wilderness, he was given a book to read. First time ever. Why?

6:26 The question is why. Now, The Lord Jesus went to the river Jordan to be baptized by John the Baptist. Now people have seen him growing up in Nazareth and they all came to know him being the son of Mary, the son of the carpenter, or Father Joseph the just, even though Joseph was his father by law. Now, so they saw him and they came to know him that he is the son of the carpenter, son of Mary, son of the carpenter. All of a sudden, after 30 years had gone by, Jesus became a mature adult. He goes to the river Jordan and then heaven opens. The voice from heaven, the Lord says, this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. And then the Holy Spirit descends on him as the dove. And all of this takes place suddenly at the age of 30

7:20 at the river Jordan. The words travel very fast and very far. People do gossip, huh? And when people gossip, especially my beloved daughters, when you talk, be very careful. I don't think the entire Pentagon are as fast as you are in spreading the word around. So the word traveled around that this Jesus, son of the carpenter, all of a sudden they're saying that God the Father from above said, this is my beloved son. And then the Holy Spirit descends on him as the dove. What is this?

7:56 Is this true? Can't be. We know he's just a normal human being. He's son of Mary and son of the carpenter. What do you mean he's the son of God? People started talking. It got to the authorities. It got to the Pharisees, the scribes, the priests, you know, the hierarchies of the temple. So they need to know what's going on. So they started questioning it. And they even said it in Luke chapter 4, 22. They were saying, this is not Joseph's son. We know he's Joseph's son, not the son of God. So, and the Lord Jesus replied to them in verse 24 of chapter 4 and says, Assuredly, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own country. You are without honor only in the midst of your own people. Strangers worship you and honor you.

8:50 but your own people deny you and reject you. Isn't it the case? Always it's the case. At home you are without honor, but in the midst of strangers, you have an extreme great honor there. After this talk about Jesus, the carpenter spread. They sent people searching for him. They searched everywhere for him without prevail. They couldn't find him. Why?

9:13 Because at that time, the Lord was in the desert fasting for 40 days and 40 nights. So they looked for him everywhere frantically, to find out if what they heard is true or not. So we want to question Jesus. We want to bring him in, call him in, and question him. What is going on? Tell us who you are.

9:30 So they searched for him frantically. They could not find him anywhere because he was in the desert for 40 days. Suddenly, out of nowhere, when they gave up searching for him, suddenly they see him walking in with his own feet all the way to the synagogue of Nazareth on a Sabbath. Big shock. Big shock. Oops, this man whom we've been looking for frantically, he comes in by himself. Hello, hello.

10:00 That's why they gave him the book to read this time for the first time ever. Yet he's been to the synagogue every Saturday for 30 years. Never gave him a book. Only this time. Because of the word that got spread around at the River Jordan. What took place at the River Jordan. So now... When they saw Jesus walking into the synagogue between themselves, I'm telling you this as a simple story. I'm trying to simplify it. I'm paraphrasing to make it very simple. They started whispering and talking between themselves. They said, oh, this is the man.

10:35 This is the man. Shall we go and ask him? Are you really the son of God? They said, no, no, no. Come on. Are we out of our mind? Why should we go and ask him and put ourselves in a very uncomfortable situation? You know what? The best thing is we're going to go to the leader of the synagogue and ask him to give him the book to read and let us see what is he going to say. Socrates, one of the greatest philosophers of the Greek world, once he said to a rich man's son, Socrates, once he said to a rich man's son, he said, son, talk so I can see you. Not talk so I can hear you, but talk so I can see you, not hear you. Why? Because if a person does not speak, you don't know what is in their mind, what is

11:26 in their heart. When will you find out? The moment they start speaking. Because once you talk, the word reveals what's inside of you. So talk so I can see you. This is exactly what these people in the synagogue decided to do. Give him the book. Let him talk. And once he talks, we will find out what we've heard, if it's true or not. So they gave him the book.

11:51 Come on, Jesus. You do it. Why should we do it for you? Reveal yourself by yourself. Now, let's go to verse 18. Verse 18. The Lord, it happens to be that they gave him the book of Isaiah. And in the Bibles we have now, it is chapter 61, verses 1 and the first half of verse 2. Look what the Lord says. The spirit of the Lord is upon me. The spirit of the Lord is upon me.

12:35 Now before I go any further. The Lord Jesus came down to Galilee in the power of the Holy Spirit. And what did we say the power of the Holy Spirit is to do with? Preaching. That's why when he entered synagogue, coming in the power of the Spirit, then he has to preach. He has to talk. He has to preach. When you come in the power of the Spirit, you will preach, baby. You will preach. So they gave him, they handed this book of Isaiah to him. It begins with the spirit of the Lord is upon me. This is the fourth point. The spirit of the Lord is upon me. Meaning the control of the spirit. He came down in the power of the spirit to preach. And now he is under the control of the spirit. The spirit of the Lord is upon me. In the church

13:31 language we call it the laying of the hands. The laying of the hand. And the laying of the hand is what we call ordination. The laying of the hand, ordination or consecration. But the spirit of the Lord is upon me. It's the laying of the hand or the control of the spirit. My beloveds. The right of ownership is one of four things. To have the right to own something, you need to be qualified in one of four things, legally speaking. Number one, ingenuity of the invention, meaning you are the first person that has invented this product, this thing. No one before you ever invented it. You are the first one. You have the right to own it because you are the first inventor That's one. Number two, buying and selling. When you buy something, you own that

14:32 thing lawfully. Number three, inheritance. When parents give something to me as an inheritance, whether it's a land, it's a property, when the parents give it over to their children, the children own that thing lawfully. And the fourth one is the laying of the hand. The laying of the hand. Now let's talk about them. Ingenuity of the invention. When it comes to the invention, we share this with all of the world. We share it all together. Why? Because the whole world is created by God. God is the rightful creator to this world. No one created the world prior to him. Because there is no one else before him.

15:21 He is the first and the last. So, as the creator, he is the rightful owner of the entire world. In this, all of us share the invention. God created us all. We belong to him. All of us. The whole world. Number two. In buying and selling... Christians are distinguished in this. Only Christians are different to the rest of the world when it comes to buying and selling. Why? The Lord Jesus purchased us with his precious blood. He gave himself to the whole world but purchased those who accepted him.

16:03 John 3 16. And so for so God. For God so loved the whole world. That he gave his only begotten son. That whoever believes in him. Should not perish. But have everlasting life. So God the father gave his only begotten son. To the whole world. For the whole world. But who was purchased by the blood. The one who accepted Jesus Christ. Not the whole world has been purchased. But.

16:32 Jesus gave his life up for the whole world, but he purchased those who accepted him So when it comes to buying and selling we were purchased bought by the blood of the Lamb of God Who are the ones purchased by the blood of the Lamb of God Christians only not the whole world? Now inheritance third point in this one The inheritance is not for all Christians and Now when it comes to buying and selling, it's for all Christians. But inheritance is not for all Christians. What is inheritance then for? It is for the Christians who live the second birth. In other words, it is for the Christians who are born of God. They are the inheritance.

17:21 Christians are all baptized. Baptized. But do they live their Christ? All the baptized souls? No. So many Christians are lost. So many Christians have no idea who Jesus Christ is. They are just Christian by name. But absolutely not Christians by deed. So when it comes to inheritance. For you to inherit your heavenly father. You better live the second birth.

17:44 The sacrament of the holy baptism. The ones who are born of God. Now the laying of the hand. The fourth one. To claim ownership. It's for the servants, the true, genuine, faithful Christians. The servants. You can never serve Christ unless you truly love him and believe in him. You can never serve Christ unless you truly love him and believe in him. Because serving Christ is not an easy path.

18:22 It's a very narrow door It's a very narrow path. It's not easy. So who are the ones that are going to last till the end and serve the Lord faithfully? Are the ones who truly, genuinely love him and live for him, not for themselves. Now let us come back to verse 18. Can we have verse 18? Oh, it's already there. The spirit of the Lord is upon me.

18:47 Here the Lord Jesus wants to show us the sixfold of the Holy Spirit. Painted so elegantly by Saint Luke. In verse 18 and verse 19 we will find six things the Holy Spirit does. Six things the Holy Spirit does. But it's painted stunningly by the great painter Saint Luke, the Gospel writer. The spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to number one Preach the gospel to the poor number two He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted number three to proclaim liberty to the captives number four and recovery of sight to the blind number five to set at Liberty those who are oppressed and Number six to proclaim the acceptable ear of the Lord, which is in verse 19 six things the Lord Jesus spoke of in chapter 2. 4. Six

19:51 things the Lord Jesus spoke of in chapter 4. And the Lord Jesus fulfilled all six things in chapter 5. All these things he fulfilled them in chapter 5. The gospel according to Saint Luke. Consists of 24 chapters each. 13 paintings the first chapter one painting the last chapter 24 is one painting we are left with 22 chapters 22 chapters every two chapters with one painting that's 11 and to 13 paintings making up 24 chapters and we said as a painter the Saint Luke does not write in a historical order He brings things that happened yesterday and brings things that happened two years ago, five months ago, a year ago, and puts them together as a brilliant painter and brings out a stunning painting called the Holy

20:48 Spirit painting. So chapter 4 and 5 is number 3 painting in the Gospel of Saint Luke. So what the Lord spoke of in chapter 4 about the six things the Holy Spirit does is, Jesus himself, as the perfect man, fulfilled them all in chapter 5. So now, let's come to the first one. To preach, can we go back to verse 18 please? To preach the gospel to the poor.

21:19 What does this mean, to preach the gospel to the poor? Who is preaching the gospel to the poor? Well, the Lord Jesus is the preacher. He came down to Galilee in the power of the Spirit. And the power of the Spirit is to do with preaching. That's why the Lord's ministry... It was preaching everywhere. So to preach the gospel to the poor, to understand who are the poor, you'll find this in Matthew 5 verse 3. Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

21:46 Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Now to know who is the poor in spirit, you need to come and see who is the poor in the flesh. To be poor physically, two things will qualify you to be a genuine street beggar. To be a genuine street beggar, two things must be found in you. Number one, that you are fully paralyzed, unable to work, unable to do anything. You cannot rely on yourself at all. Number two, you have inherited absolutely nothing from your parents. Because if I was fully paralyzed and mom and dad left me money and properties and possessions, I can live off of that. But if my parents left me with nothing and I physically am unable to work, then I qualify to be a street beggar. I rely

22:39 on you. If you don't help me, I'll eventually die. The Lord Jesus came to preach the gospel to the poor. So the poor are the ones who claim and acknowledge they have no inheritance from their parents and they are physically unable to work. All of us, we were born from our parents, Adam and Eve, in sin. Sin made us all bankrupt. And sin made us all paralyzed and unable to work spiritually. Now we are poor. The Lord says, blessed are you if you say, I am bankrupt, Lord, and I am good for nothing. I came for people like you. Now, the Lord Jesus entered the realm of materialism to lead us out into the realm of spiritualism.

23:42 The Lord Jesus entered the realm of materialism, which is our realm, to lead us out into the realm of spiritualism. In Luke 5... You see, every single point of this in Luke 4, 18, you will find the answer to it being fulfilled in Luke chapter 5. The Lord fulfills them. So 4 and 5 go hand in hand. In 4, the Lord says what he's doing. In 5, the Lord did what he said in Luke 4. Are you with me?

24:14 You're too quiet, you're scaring me. Alright, so in Luke 5, verses 1 to 10, it talks about the first point. The first point, to preach the gospel to the poor, the Lord fulfilled this point in Luke 5 verses 1 to 10. How? When you read in Luke 5 from verse 1 to 10, you'll find this. The Lord Jesus comes to the sea of Galilee and he sees two boats.

24:40 One belonging to Simon Peter, the other one belonging to James and John, the sons of Zebedee. The Lord decides to enter the boat of Simon Peter. And then he says to Simon Peter, can you just put your boat a little bit into the water there? I want to preach to the multitude standing on the shores. Because people used to gather wherever Jesus went. So when the Lord Jesus saw the multitude, he came into the boat of St. Peter.

25:07 And he said, just go a little bit into the water. St. Peter said, why? He said, I want to preach to the people. So St. Peter sat in the boat while Jesus is standing and preaching there. and the power of the Spirit. He started preaching to them. Once he finished preaching to the people, he says to Simon Peter, now take the boat into the deep and cast your net to catch fish. Simon Peter looks at the Lord Jesus.

25:37 He says, with all love and respect, you're a carpenter. I, Peter, am the fisherman. You know, I'm the expert in here, sorry. What you're saying logically makes no sense, Jesus of Nazareth. Why? Because all night long, we were trying to catch fish. We did not catch not even Nemo, the little tiny fish.

26:01 We caught absolutely nothing, Jesus, all night long. Now, you're saying... During the day now, it's no longer night time, it's during the day now. You're saying go to the deep and cast your net to catch fish. We know as fishermen, during the day, fish hide away. We can't find them. That's why we go at night time to catch them.

26:23 But since you entered my boat, I'll take you as a guest. And it is kind of rude from me, I, Simon, to really disrespect my guest. Since you're my guest, that's okay. I'll do what you say, yet I don't believe in what you say. So he casts the net. And then before he realizes, the net is full of immense fish, big ones. And the Bible, Holy Bible says the net was caused to be torn apart from the weight of the fish the net caught. You know why the Lord Jesus did that? The Lord Jesus is fair in every way.

27:16 Even when it comes to materialistic things. The Lord says to Simon Peter, I used your boat and I used your time. Don't ever think I'm not going to pay you for it. So since I used your boat and I used your time, I caught you plenty of fish. That's the payment. I don't do it for free. When Simon Peter saw all the fish, Simon said, Lord, please get out of my boat. I'm a sinner. Like this is too much. Lord, we as professional fishermen, all night long, we were not able to catch one fish. You as a carpenter know nothing about fishing. You brought us endless blessings.

28:03 But these blessings are what? Material blessings. The Lord Jesus entered into our life using material things to lead us out of materialism into spiritual things. So, Lord, you brought us plenty of blessings. But this blessing is what? Material. Fish is material. The Lord Jesus said, Simon, I did not bring you material things. But I brought you material things in order through them I get you to spiritual things. Therefore, Simon, I'll say this to you. You see all these fish, yes?

28:42 He said, yes, Lord. I caught them for you, correct? He said, yes, Lord. From this moment onward, you will catch people for me. Spiritual. I came into your life through material. I came into your life through the things you do. In order to get you to do the things I do. Not you do anymore. Don't ever end up a religious figure. Religious people destroy the church. Just like those religious people destroyed the temple. Live Christ. Don't just talk and speak eloquently with big words. And yet live none of them. Rather be quiet and live the Lord.

29:35 Don't talk too much. And live very little. Live the Lord. And shut up. Be quiet.